Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 207

Unsold
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
MOCENIGO, ANDREA. Bellum Cameracense. [188] leaves. 8vo, 152x102 mm, 17th-century stiff wrappers, spine darkened and worn, covers soiled, book block partly loose in binding; title heavily spotted with old signature and restoration in blank lower inner corner, contents otherwise generally clean. (Venice: Bernardino dei Vitail, 1525)

Additional Details

first edition of a history of the 1508-16 series of Italian wars in which shifting alliances fought for territorial control in northern Italy, with the League of Cambrai initially formed by Pope Julius II against the Venetian Republic giving way to the Holy League against the French. Adams M1518; Alden 525/11 (for reference to Hispaniola on q8v).